wwho makes a better shifter, hurst or steeda? i see that the hurst shifter is about 100 bucks cheaper and looks a little cheaper as well. and the steeda is a large chunk of soild aluminum. i am wondering if it is worth buying the hurst shifter or is it crap?
Hang tight for another month or so.I read on another forum that MGW is about to release their new version of S197 shifter.The owner of MGW posted that this will be the best of the best,as many of the sn95 owners already know MGW makes one of the best shifters out there. He promised some new and inovative changes to the shifter that has him applying for new patents.He Stated that cost would be somewhere around $300.00 but would be worht it.Based on some of the MGW products I've purchased in the past(quaility second to none) wait will be worth it
I had an MGW shifter in my '03 Mach 1.
Very high quality. Put the factory shifter to shame.
Solid, short and fast shifting.
I'd buy another in a heartbeat.
I can't say if they have one in the works for the new gen Mustang, but if they do I'm sure it's a winner as well.
The stock shifter is too rubbery but LM Performance sell poly bushes for it for $26 so that's the cheapest way and keeps the shorty shifter. I plumped for the chrome white ball shifter from Hurst. I too was almost wooed by the billet but to be honest, you can't see it unless you're a stuntman on Indiana Jones so what does it matter it's steel, it does the same job and it's hardly heavy.
The chrome shifter is taller than stock which may be regarded as a retrograde step but I like it. It uses the stock gaiter. the only thing that jars with me is the plastic oval that goes in the top of the gaiter for the shifter to slip through. It looks like a half cent piece of waste plastic. If I could get a little chrome or billet cap to go over it, I'd be a lot happier.
As for the quality of the shift, it's far more precise, short throw and "metallic" and you don't miss 3rd any more.